Paediatric Specialist Physiotherapist (Band 6) - Physiotherapy - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Whittington Health; Chipping Barnet; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Barnet is seeking a motivated Paediatric Specialist Physiotherapist. The role involves working with children and young people, providing effective therapy and support within a multidisciplinary team. The position offers flexible working arrangements and ongoing development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Ongoing development opportunities

Qualifications

• At least 1 year of experience in paediatric physiotherapy.
• Experience in an NHS setting.

Responsibilities

• Working within pathways for complex motor skills and physical developmental clinics.
• Supporting children's physical and postural needs.
• Training families and professionals.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Assessment

Prioritisation

Conflict Management

Education

Graduate diploma/degree in Physiotherapy

NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy

Job description

Main area Physiotherapy Grade Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Post will be until February 2026) Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week Job ref 220-WHT-2958-B

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Barnet Town Barnet Salary £42,939 - £50,697 pro-rata per annum inclusive of outer HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 23:59

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Job overview

Paediatric Specialist Physiotherapist - Band 6

Contract : Fixed term: 12 months (Post will be until February 2026) Part-time 22.5 hours per week

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Physiotherapist to develop their skills working alongside and being supported by experienced therapists within our multidisciplinary team comprising of SLT / OT / Physio.

You will benefit from being part of a supportive, experienced group of staff providing a clinically effective service to children and young people and their families in Barnet.

We have 0.6 WTE (22.5 hours per week) post available for the successful candidate tojoin our Children’s Integrated Therapies (CIT) Team, providing an innovative service to children and families in Barnet, until February 2026.

As part of the role, you will have opportunities for Agile working arrangements including the provision of mobile technology and flexible working hours and arrangements.
•Flexible working hours and arrangements

The service offers ongoing development opportunities including:

• Journal Club
• Clinical and Management Supervision
• CPD
• Shadowing opportunities
• Service and Trust Induction Packages
• Team Meetings

In addition, you will be supported with your own clinical interests and engage in team projects co-working with other colleagues, lead by Clinical Leads recognised for creating a positive work environment.

Main duties of the job

In addition, you will be supported with your own clinical interests and engage in team projects co-working with other colleagues, lead by Clinical Leads recognised for creating a positive work environment.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Working within one or more Pathways that include complex, motor skills and physical developmental clinics
• Prioritisation, Assessment and Therapy.
• Supporting children’s and young people’s physical and postural needs
• Working with children in groups and individually across various locations
• Working as part of a multi-professional team in partnership with families.
• Training families and professionals.
• Jointly setting and reviewing targets.
• Measure outcomes.

We look forward to receiving your application as the first step towards welcoming you to the Barnet Children’s Integrated Therapy Team.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

• • Graduate diploma/degree in Physiotherapy
• • NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
• Evidence of completion of relevant short courses
• Membership of relevant special interest group (e.g. APCP

Knowledge, experience, skills and abilities

• • Previous experience of working in paediatric physiotherapy for at least 1 year
• • Experience of working in an NHS setting.
• Commitment to CPD
• Previous involvement in QI projects or audit
• • Experience of supervision of junior staff
• • Experience of working with children with a variety of presentations including school age children with gross motor skill issues, and children from 0-19 with neuromuscular or neurodevelopmental issues.
• • Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
• • Experience of working alongside other members of the MDT
• • Good presentation skills, both written and verbal, including writing SOAP notes/ reports and presenting relevant information to
• • Ability to assess children with a wide range of neurodevelopmental, neuromuscular and gross motor skill issues.
• • To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area (car driver)
• • To be a member of the CSP
• • To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values (ICARE)
• • Manage and resolve conflict
• • Ability to prioritise workload and manage own diary/ caseload

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form –

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• Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes –

• Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
• If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunatelythis means you have not been successfullyshortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
• Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
• Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information –

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you areeligible under theUKVI points based system .
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Jeremy Hasson Job title Clinical Lead Physiotherapist Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 020 3316 8900

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